Mary K. Letourneau arrested on driving-related charge

Mary K. Letourneau, the former Burien school teacher famous for having an affair with a 12-year-old student, was arrested early Monday morning for failing to appear in court on a driving-related charge, according to jail logs.

Letourneau, 51, was booked into King County Jail at 4:44 a.m. by Tukwila police for not coming to court to answer to her third-degree driving with a suspended license charge.

She bailed out of jail later Monday afternoon.

She served time from 1997 to 2004 for having sex with Vili Fualaau, a student at Shorewood Elementary School in Burien where she worked.Fualaau was 12 years old and in sixth grade when their affair began, while Letourneau was 34, married with four children. Letourneau and Fualaau pair had two children — one born while Letourneau was out of jail on bail and another while she was in custody.

Letourneau and Fualaau married in Woodinville in 2005.

Her current charge stemmed from being pulled over in January 2013, found to have a suspended driver’s license for unpaid traffic tickets.

The King County Prosecutor’s Office ordered her to attend a relicensing program to earn her license back and avoid a criminal charge. However, she did not show up to the program and prosecutors filed a criminal charge against her.

A $5,000 warrant was issued for her arrest in September after she failed to attend a court hearing to answer for her criminal charge.